Emergings in Brief (12/01)

Start-Up showcases the following recently launched companies: ev3 Inc., Fossa Industries Inc., Plexus Vaccine Inc., Proteomic Research Services Inc. and VizX Labs LLC.

11400 73rd Avenue, Suite 134

Maple Grove, MN 55369

• Phone: [phone]

• Fax: [phone]

• E-Mail: [email protected]

• Web Site: www.ev3.com

• Management: Paul Buckman, Pres., CEO; Dale Spencer, Chmn.; Jim Corbett, Pres., ev3 International; Stacy Enxing Seng, VP, Sales & Mktg.; Jerry Johnson, CFO

• Company Founded: April 2001

• Financing to Date: $10 million

• Investors: Warburg Pincus; Vertical Group

• Employees: 25

• Industry Segment: Supplies, Equipment and Devices

• Business: Endovascular devices for interventional cardiology, radiology, and neuroradiology.

Fossa Industries Inc.

580 Harrison Avenue, 4th Floor

Boston, MA 02118

• Phone: [phone]

• E-Mail: [email protected]

• Web Site: www.fossaind.com

• Management: Gloria Ro Kolb, Co-founder, Pres.; Mark Manasas, VP, Engineering; Michael Mitchell, MD, Co-founder; Nimish Parikh, Dir. of Bus. Dev.

• Company Founded: 2001

• Financing to Date: $100,000

• Investors: Slater Center for Design Innovation

• Employees: 3

• Industry Segment: Supplies, Equipment and Devices

• Business: Fossa Stone Sweeper designed to dilate the ureter and directly remove small or fragmented kidney stones.

Plexus Vaccine Inc.

11770 Bernardo Plaza Court, #370B

San Diego, CA 92128

• Phone: [phone]

• Fax: [phone]

• E-Mail: [email protected]

• Web Site: www.plexvax.com

• Management: Susan K. Burgess, PhD, Pres.; Robert J. Deans, PhD, VP, R&D

• Company Founded: April 2001

• Financing to Date: $750,000

• Investors: MolSoft LLC ; Rockport Venture Partners; private investors

• Employees: 5

• Partners/Alliances: MolSoft LLC; Quest Diagnostics; Structural Bioinformatics Inc.

• Industry Segment: Bioinformatics; Vaccines

• Business: Will combine structure-based drug design with genomic bioinformatics analysis of pathogens and their host species to design epitope-specific vaccines for human and veterinary diseases.

Proteomic Research Services Inc.

4401 Varsity Drive, Suite E

Ann Arbor, MI 48108

• Phone: [phone]

• Fax: [phone]

• E-Mail: [email protected]

• Web Site: www.proteomicresearchservices.com

• Management: Mike Pisano, PhD, Co-founder; Beth Allen, PhD, Co-founder; Rick Edmondson, PhD, Co-founder

• Company Founded: October 2001

• Investors: Internal

• Employees: 7

• Industry Segment: Proteomics

• Business: Spun off from Genomic Solutions Inc. to provide proteomics laboratory and consulting services to biotech and pharmaceutical companies, academic institutes, and government agencies.

VizX Labs LLC

2815 Eastlake Avenue East, Suite 300

Seattle, WA 98102

• Phone: [phone]

• Fax: [phone]

• E-Mail: [email protected]

• Web Site: www.vizxlabs.com

• Management: J. Thomas Ranken, Co-founder and CEO; Bob Cottingham, Co-founder and CTO

• Company Founded: January 2001

• Financing to Date: $400,000

• Investors: Private

• Employees: 7

• Industry Segment: Bioinformatics; Drug Discovery Tools

• Business: Affordable, standardized, user-friendly desktop gene chip software. Aims to make bioinformatics software available to all levels of biological researchers, not just those in institutions that can afford enterprise-wide solutions.